At the Eastern end of Hong Kong’s Chek Lap Kok airport, construction work is underway on a really big project; this is the future transit facility for the Hong Kong end of the Hong Kong/Zhuhai/Macau transport link. This system will comprise 50km of tunnels and bridges that will link these important Pearl River Delta trading cities. The main bridge will be over 22km long and the cost is estimated to be over US$10 Billion and rising. Incredibly, the Hong Kong Government agreed funding for the project on the same day that the contract was signed with contractors and work actually began within days – try doing that under the UK planning system! The entire structure is due for completion in 2016. At the time that this photo was taken, other passengers on the ferry that I was on were enthusiastically pointing out the pair of pink dolphins that were hunting right on the edge of the construction site at the left hand side of the image. What a contrast!

I was always going to struggle with writing anything so dramatic after yesterday’s blog entry, but have tried to match it with the title at least! The legacy of Typhoon Vicente has lingered all through yesterday and today; the rain has hardly let up at all and the skies have remained leaden and threatening. This being Hong Kong, commerce and business have not been slow to recover, but transport systems have taken a little longer to get back to normality. Towards the end of the day, I got fed up with being cooped in all day and decided to go get wet – and I felt so much better for it. I think the gaudy statue is supposed to represent the unique Chinese pink dolphins that inhabit the waters around here; perhaps one day I’ll be lucky enough to see one in the flesh.